12 Million Girls: Obama, Clooney and Gates tackle child marriage - BBC Africa
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- čas přidán 9. 12. 2023
- Around the world, more than 650 million women alive today were married as children. And each year, 12 million girls are married before they reach 18. Although Malawi outlaws marriage for those under 18 years, cultural norms and poverty means the practice persists.
BBC 100 Women visits the country to meet girls at risk and the grassroots organisations working to fix the problem - alongside three of the world's most high profile humanitarians, Michelle Obama, Amal Clooney and Melinda French Gates.
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For the people commenting about "they only focus on African people but not their own" African country's are under oppression and there is alot to fix, so them helping should be a blessing.
I dont understand why some people in the comments are condemning them for trying to reduce the number of girls married off early, how is that wrong???? What's wrong with us Africans?
Principle wise- there is absolutely nothing wrong. There shouldn't be child marriage anywhere, period. What I take issue with is that they aren't bothering to try and end child marriage in their own country as well as other places because in the US it still exists. That's just strikes me as off.
It's not that there's something wrong with Africans it's only that it's full of idiots for a lack of better education.
What is wrong is the audacity to change a culture and introduce LGBTQ, candy, cloths, cash and stupidity.
@@samuelikonallaholokpo9063 So marrying underage children who don't have the capacity for consent is ok because it's cultural? Oy vey...
@@-relentlessxchaos- Who is defining the capacity for consent, you?
I appreciate these ladies cfor trying for the girl child, like Rihanna said, start with one child, change is gradual
As a citizen of Malawi, this is real life here.
Poverty, cultural practices, and environmental factors plays a very big role to early marriages
This documentary went exactly and met with the affected ones
I totally agree with this documentary
@@LucyMorris-ib1bw It may have something to do with the fact that here are 3 extremely wealthy American women (is Amal American ?), who really have no idea what it's like living in that part of the world. They will go back to their luxury lives and only think about those young girls again for the next photo opportunity. If they genuinely care, then they should go and live in the country for a period of time, and talk to older women and men and young girls to better understand the local custom and practice. Slowly, gaining trust and respect, they can begin to persuade people the long term benefits of letting girls just be girls.
while it's great to engage with the affect, the real change needs to happen at a systemic societal level. more engagement with governments and traditional authorities. engage with civil society orgs who are already doing this work. otherwise, it's just a feel good piece for a moment and not much change happens in the girls' lives
Are these marriages legally binding in Malawi if one person is under age?
I believe marriage is beautiful thing but me watching this documentary am sitting down wondering what does a 12 13 14 year old know about marriage what type of home can they build they are still children 😢 they have been robed of their childhood mehn hope one day they will be free they deserve freedom
I agree with you, but poverty is the main issue here. Imagine that pregnant girl if her grandmother had food marriage wouldn't be an option to escape poverty.
@@dalitsokalumpha7478 l understand meeehn 🥺😭 but it pains my heart that marriage is the only solution
"Enough is enough. It's time to break the cycle of child marriages in Malawi. Cultural norms and poverty should not be an excuse for violating the rights of young girls. Parents, it's time to take responsibility and stand against this harmful practice. Let's protect our children and give them a chance at a better future. #EndChildMarriage #ProtectOurGirls #Malawi" Although Malawi outlaws marriage for those under 18 years, cultural norms and poverty mean the practice persists. This is how the problem breaks down.
1. Cultural value: they need to detach themselves from what used to be what it is now
2. Parents" Those parents should be punished if they offer or let their child be married
3. I found it problematic that an underage girl gets pregnant; that means she has been raped and then we also have a bigger problem.
Meanwhile closer to Africa in Iraq teenage marriages are a norm and very much celebrated 😫😫😫😫
If the frontal lobe is not fully developed until around 25, why is marriage and sex acceptable for anyone under 25.
Exactly. It must be men who make these decisions, globally. Because patriarchy is global.
You saying girl of 20-24 are 2 young ?
@@mansamusa1848 I don’t necessarily say that, but science does. If someone’s brain isn’t fully developed until 25 then how can we expect them to be mothers and wives.
I love Mitchelle and Melinda. They've done enormously to lift women up. They inspire me. ❤
What about all the children mirandas husband has killed ?
What is sexually attractive about a child? What is wrong with some men? Why would someone marry a child with zero to little level of maturity? Extra work! Allow her mature, be educated and know her choices. Marriage is not easy for grown ups talkless of children. THEY DO NOT NEED THAT. MARRIAGE SHOULD NEVER BE AN OPTION FOR A CHILD😢😢
It breaks my heart that a girl child is still being married off. I'm glad that you're shining a light on this. The ripple effects of child marriages are palpable. We all need to stand in solidarity to end it.
Well done documentary 🙏🏽How we help ❤
Why every doc is about malawi ?
All the things they said bad about you. This just makes me want to cry.
I understand that part of western colonization, but at the same time that does not give any parent or any community to degrade a woman or devalued a girl child, remember I am a daughter, a mother, and woman, and came from African background, many of my friends, sisters, and even me been told that we have no value in a society, so you see, you have to be in those girls shoes to understand the real effect of it. I hope this will make you understand. Is not about colonialization, it's about a human right, a woman right.
Excellent well done
I listened to a whole session of Congress, and now I see what is really happening. I don't believe in paying reparations because America can't afford that, but I saw how they kept interrupting whenever someone brought up the subject of prejudice. I can't believe how it really is still going on in America. I thought it was long over. I live in California, and people of all cultures get along here. We don't discriminate. So now I know.
I learnt also even as a girl as I once was
Keep it up. 🎉
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They must see it as a way to leverage African politics. They’re better off utilizing their husbands resources to work on political corruption in Africa so everyone’s problems can subside. If women had more rights and were heard by government, this wouldn’t be a problem. They need an outlet beyond their local offices and preference.
While I'm all for ending child marriage (no matter where it is)- I don't understand why these Americans aren't working to end it here in a America. Because it is still legal in several states here, you know? Where is the outcry for a archaic pratice that is happening right here in your own country? You guys telling me that with all that money and resources, you can't handle an ongoing issue in more than one corner of the world?
I mean, this is just lazy virtue signaling to be perfectly honest.
americans like to stick their noses up everyone's business but theirs
Never try to pressurise an exploitations of an old age woman sex abuses because an old woman also has feelings and so has also fully rights to live on an erth same as an under age teens
BUT THEY CANT THEY TUCKLE SEX TRAFICKING AND SAVAGE OFFENSES DONE IN AMERICA
There are many problems in this world and there is only much a person can do, instead of asking what they can't/arent doing, praise them for what they are doing.
@@taymudenda5738 I CANT PRAISE UNPRAISABLE , CHILDREN AND GIRLS ARE SUFFERING IN AMERICA BUT THEY ARE PULLING PUBLICITY STUNT IN AFRICA… WHY IS MALAWI 🇲🇼 GOVERNMENT LAZY ON DEALING ON SUCH ISSUES
@@TIAMOSCHATZ1 that country is in serious debt and poverty the government is doing it's best even sending farmers to isnotreal to cultivate their land, so get a life and stop telling them what to do. You should help to stop it instead of telling other people what they should do. Ignorance is never the option 🤲🏽
@@sisterflora8390 are you doing anything? Are you helping these girls? Are you protecting them ? I would suggest you stop being insecure and having so much pride, ignorance is never the option
Will they be encouraged about skills?
Hasn't Gates done enough for "young girls"? I think it would have been better to marry them first at least.
So we've daughters to use them as objects of income. Why not have children you can take care of, instead of subjecting daughters to torture of early marriage because of poverty. You marry of your child for food money😭😭😭😭
Thank you Jesus! They are not so bad.
I love that they made this documentary and project. I'm hoping that they make a documentary on gun violence in America.
As a matter of fact, child marriage kills but gun kills faster and effectively.
This has been a worldwide practice FOREVER. No I don't agree withbit, but no one points out the Europeans who continue to child traffic.
I mean, child/human trafficking isn't just a European problem. More like the whole wide world wherever humans exist problem.
This is what happened to me they believe women don’t have the right to their own being this isn’t ok I lost a son or daughter because of this and my life will never be the same and worse of all my baby will not get to live her life or his life.
First define "child". In the UK a person only acquires responsibility in Common Law for their actions at the age of 14. In Sharia Law, certainly here in Mauritania, it is the same. If a man asks an Imam to make a marriage for him and his bride, if the girl is young, the Imam would ask the father if she has reached puberty, has menses, and is ready for marriage. Thus in Islam a girl who is 14 or over and has puberty is not a child. Marriage is the foundation of family and community in any society and should be encouraged. The danger is that Westerners, especially non-Muslims, may place a higher priority on education. Again, in English Common Law children are required to remain in full time education until the age of 16 and that same age is also the minimum age of consent. It may be the case that some legislations have a mismatch between those two age limits, or no such limit for education. Might be as well to research that first, and also accept that the neither the West or Africans, NGOs or Muslims, have a monopoly on the best policy for marriage or education. The West breeds consumers, and is currently failing to breed, and failing to produce successful marriages. Africans, especially Muslims, are unlikely to take much guidance from such preaching.
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The framing is totally wrong
My good brother, the Gates and Obamas have bloods on their hands. They're neocolonial tools being used to destroy Africa. Our leaders know these issues exist but they just don't care about solving it.
Mum is single, but some how a man is their salvation??!!..a cycle of failure...😮..I would choose school!!
Let me help you up to a branch says the monkey to the fish, less you drawn. - Alan Watts, or somebody...
They should mind their own business and let Africans sort out their own affairs.
they're just here for the show, gotta make sure they look good for the camera....hair all done, makeup, lashes lmao. Michelle thinks she's doing something by basically showing off her successes
If Africans had the ability to sort out your own affairs, no one would be talking how Horrible it is that some of you like being a “pedo” enough to believe that marrying children is a good thing. Child marriage is wrong in Every country of the world. The only people who condone this are sick old desperate, criminally minded men.
Clearly they couldn’t sort it out on their own, that’s why someone had to step in. There’s nothing wrong with that.
@@brianna6686 Everything is wrong with that. What if the Ottoman Empire stepped in to sort out America’s affairs during the Revolutionary War or the Civil War? There would be any America. White supremacy is a worldwide problem.
@@brianna6686 and miss, who even asked for your help? youre probably american. go sort your own issues in your country (u got plenty) then come try to be a saviour and sticking ur nose in everyone's business
For society to advance ahead. U need to respect women n girls. Otherwise 10 0 millions nothing will change.